Diagnosis of Mucocutaneous Herpetic Infections by PCR without DNA Extraction

The mucocutaneous herpetic infections are common in a variety of conditions and can be presented as vesicles, ulcers, crusts pustules. When clinical diagnosis is not evident, as in hosts, viral cultures and Tzank smears could be used diagnosis (GT Nahass et al. 1992. In AIDS patients the emergence of resistant strains are not uncommon and the development of herpetic lesions could drive to incorrect diagnosis and (PA Chatis et al. 1989).